Sentences with phrase «wind turns the turbine»

The only difference is the wind turns a turbine instead of water.

It's actually pretty simple: The energy in wind turns the turbine's blades around a rotor that is connected to the main shaft, which itself spins a generator to create electricity.

Not exact matches

But when so many turn down leasing one and one - half acre for one Wind Turbine for each 80 acres, that lease certainly does not materially affect the rest of the Farm or Ranch grazing pasture and the lease pays much more than the farm crow or grazing pasture lease, just because some lawyer said the lease was too long: 30 years plus 30 year option = 60 years, and the wind turbine company has selling production / electricity contracts for the next 150 years — which is needed to obtain financWind Turbine for each 80 acres, that lease certainly does not materially affect the rest of the Farm or Ranch grazing pasture and the lease pays much more than the farm crow or grazing pasture lease, just because some lawyer said the lease was too long: 30 years plus 30 year option = 60 years, and the wind turbine company has selling production / electricity contracts for the next 150 years — which is needed to obtain finTurbine for each 80 acres, that lease certainly does not materially affect the rest of the Farm or Ranch grazing pasture and the lease pays much more than the farm crow or grazing pasture lease, just because some lawyer said the lease was too long: 30 years plus 30 year option = 60 years, and the wind turbine company has selling production / electricity contracts for the next 150 years — which is needed to obtain financwind turbine company has selling production / electricity contracts for the next 150 years — which is needed to obtain finturbine company has selling production / electricity contracts for the next 150 years — which is needed to obtain financing!

Yes, no one should turn down wind farming's ultimate passive lease income when the lease income also includes rate increases, technology increases all along and a big one at 25 years when they change out the wind turbine, blades and head.

Everyone knows that wind turbine which are built on the most windy cost will end up standing still for maybe 50 % of the time, I have a large wind farm next to me right now it's windy and two out of the twelve turbines are turning, most days we have one turning and I've yet to see more then four turning.

And all of that production means that China is bearing the burden of the pollution that can go along with the manufacture of such renewable energy for other countries — whether the acid rain — forming sulfur dioxide emitted from making the steel in a wind turbine's blade or the noxious chemicals left over after manufacturing specialized silicon, or glass, that can turn sunshine into electricity.

A massive wind turbine — capable of turning the breeze into two million watts of power — has 40 - meter - long blades made from fiberglass, towers 90 meters above the ground, weighs hundreds of metric tons, and fundamentally relies on roughly 300 kilograms of a soft, silvery metal known as neodymium — a so - called rare earth.

It turns out they are indispensable for a range of urgently needed green energy technologies such as wind turbine generators, low - energy lighting, fuel cells, rechargeable batteries, magnetic refrigeration and hydrogen storage.

The past year looks like the turning point when alternatives to fossil fuels — everything from solar energy, wind turbines, ethanol, and the hybrid car — finally hit the mainstream.

The turning blades can actually help spark lightning strikes, potentially incapacitating wind turbines

Turbines wound with superconducting wire instead of regular copper could turn today's 2 to 3 - megawatt generators into 10 - megawatt powerhouses, say teams in Europe and the US that are racing to produce the machines.

I was dismayed by the report on the wind turbine explosion in Scotland that happened because high winds forced it to turn against the brakes (13 July, p 7).

The more wind that hits the blades, the more the rotor can turn and the more energy the wind turbine can produce.

If your pinwheel were a wind turbine, and spinning counterclockwise turned wind energy into electrical energy, then it would most efficiently produce electricity when wind blows directly into the cups.

Instead of wind, tidal flows turn the turbine, converting the kinetic energy of moving seawater into electrical energy.

But so is the cost of any method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions enough to make a similar difference — whether it's doubling the fuel efficiency of every single car and truck on the road (which would cost a few trillion dollars and take at least 15 years) or building scores of new wind turbines for each turbine already turning today or erecting hundreds of new solar cell arrays for every array in use today.

Turbines create emissions - free electricity by using the wind to turn propeller - like blades around a rotor.

The devices wouldn't rely on anything spinning or turning like wind turbines, but would instead harness the energy in the vibration of wind, seismic activity and more.

I am amazed that hundreds of wind turbines and wind turbine farms are being discussed before any serious studies have been done on how electricity demand could be reduced, which in turn of course would reduce the number of wind turbines needed!

Whether the discussion turns to replacing coal - fired power plants with wind turbines and using electric cars instead of gas - driven SUVs, converting industrial agricultural practices to organic permaculture, or reversing the decline of ocean life though international regulations, it is an article of faith in the reform movement that we know what we need to do and all that's lacking is a sufficiently visionary leader to put more planet - friendly solutions in place.

According to its inventors, Einar Agustsson and Agust Agustsson, a fully working prototype of this micro wind turbine has been built, but in order to put it into production, they've turned to Kickstarter to raise the $ 50,000 to finish the final prototype and start the manufacturing process.

Wind turbines can actually even be turned into a garden feature if you plan properly.

As the wind makes the turbines turn, they drive a turbine and it is this turbine which generates the electricity.

It turned out it was a bit more of a hassle than I thought to actually put my own wind turbine on my own island.

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Trident Winds plans to build a floating array of about 100 wind turbines, each with a hub height of 400 feet — which works out to up to 600 feet in height when one of the turning blades is at the 12 o'clock position — some 33 nautical miles off Morro Bay.

«Should anyone wonder why I am so against wind turbines, it is because the recent installation of 40 of them 35 km away at times has turned the quiet rural area of the northern hills of Yass into a rumbling mess.

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https://stopthesethings.com/2018/03/22/german-researchers-target-effects-of-wind-turbine-infrasound-on-the-heart/ We must demand that all turbines be turned off now and we must force the wind industry to prove that they are safe.

We are dismayed to see people being forced from their homes due to incessant, wind turbine generated low - frequency noise and infrasound; and horrified as we witnessed those in positions of power not only fail to help those people, but turn on these victims of a government - sanctioned, subsidy - soaked industry.

The pristine mountain scenery of Southern Karystia is being turned into a degraded industrial wasteland through the construction of wind parks with hundreds of turbines.

Under normal circumstances, wind turbine blades are left to turn slowly in the wind until they reach «cut - in speed,» the point at which they're spinning fast enough to begin generating power.

I've discussed wind energy in these pages many times before, but the conversation seems to have always turned to a discussion of wind turbine stocks.

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The only relief is when the wind dies and the turbines have been turned completely off for a few days and as this good fortune rarely occurs, neither does a restorative, complete good nights sleep.

When you drive past an area one day where you observe hundreds and hundreds of giant wind turbines slowly turning, then on the next day you drive...

Turbine blades that broke were first two to be turned on Huron Daily Tribune Brenda Battel 4 November 2016 BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP — The two blades that broke on separate wind turbines last month were the first two to be turned on in the startup phase of the Deerfield wind project.

«Primary school forced to turn off wind turbine after bird deaths,» Telegraph, July 4, 2010, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/7870929/Primary-school-forced-to-turn-off-wind-turbine-after-bird-deaths.html 25.

Converting light into electricity with no moving parts is a profoundly different enterprise than turning a turbine to make power — the technology that is at work in coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydropower plants and, most visibly to the public, at wind farms.

As the blades of a wind turbine turn, the kinetic energy of the wind is converted into mechanical energy, which is transmitted through a drive shaft to an electrical generator in the nacelle.

Those wind turbines endlessly turning on the hill near your home tell of a changing world.

Usually they turn off the wind turbines in the north and activate gas or coal fired plants in the south for keeping the balance.

Newsbytes from the GWPF, Lies, Damn Lies And Green Statistics Almost all predictions about the expansion and cost of German wind turbines and solar panels have turned out to be wrong — at least by a factor of two, sometimes by a factor of five.

Unlike other solutions available, this new innovation in power conversion can turn fixed speed drivetrains to variable speed without the need to re-condition both the original generator and wind - turbine programmable logic controller (PLC).

(Now who pays for the research value is an interesting subject) As this plant utilizes steam to turn a turbine I suspect it can support the grid the same way conventional fossil fuel plants do, and photo - voltaic and wind resources do not.

-- the turning off of turbines when the wind is blowing — was a less serious problem last year.

Meanwhile, I look out my window and I can see one windmill, it is not turning, and given the area of the current high pressure system over the UK I much doubt that a single wind turbine in the whole country is producing anything.

When the nearby Waubra wind turbines began turning, she started suffering intense vibrations through her machine and into her head, severely upsetting her sleep.